Sure thing, that sounds like a good idea. I am just printing up the last of the parts that I have copied from Carl. When I am sure there are no errors I will zip them up and post.

 

The BOM lists 24 extreme mini v, they're in the frame section. Openbuilds changed their design from Carl's build and you will need more presicion mini v shims. each axle in the core xy requires 3 instead of two, for a total of 52 Mini V Wheel Precision Shim, each wheel kit comes with 2, you will need to order at least 8 extra Mini V Wheel Precision Shim.

I used the 45mm M5 Low Profile screws to attach the z bar ends. This will allow the car to pass the extra crossmembers that I have on the left and right sides. Carl's build called for 40mm m5 socket head.

I have printed, but not installed my CoreXY motor mounts or Idlers. They look right, but as of now are untested. If you want to be safe, use Carl's. I taught myself CAD by copying his files from 123D into Fusion 360. All other parts are printed and installed.


"Which size did you target with your parts?" Is this referring to the wheels?

 

with the mini v wheels, there needs to be a shim in between the bearings inside the wheel. bolt / plastic / spacer / shim / wheel ( bearing / shim / bearing ) shim / spacer / plastic / nut.

My frame would turn like a steering wheel if I grabbed it from the top, I attributed that to the fact that my vertical legs are 710mm.

I am posting up a zip file of all the .stl's, As far as the BOM goes, it is still missing a few parts, some 25mm bolts for the Z belt idlers, off the top of my head.

Nice looking video also.

 

Got some more construction done, It is essentially mechanically built.

 

Got my drivers set up tonight. I am using the 4988 blacks, to make them compatable with the mightyboard i had to solder them upside down. Needed to use some jumpers to access the trim pot. Jetguy's answer to my question about setting VREF. "If so, most of them use 0.4V Vref = 1A so just multiply your value in desired Amps times 0.4V= Vref. So 1.5A= 0.6V Vref , 0.8A for the extruder is 0.8*0.4V= 0.32V Vref
8 days until moving truck arrives.....

 

I'm not sure why these pics didn't attach the first time. Basically I used a m/f jumper to connect the driver to the MB. two of them, one on ground and one on VDD . Another jumper from the other ground to my DMM, aligator clipped. You measure the VREF at the pad that I circled. The worst part of the operation was having to power cycle inbetween drivers.

 

i thought i had posted this as well. remove the pin in the MS3 slot, then solder bridge to MS2. I should have rotated the inverted one to show the missing pin better. The close up in the post above shows that pretty well.

 

That's interesting, I didn't read any explicit directions and I only stumbled onto that pad that I used. My screwdriver is ceramic, I don't think your method would have worked for me.

 

It appears that the clip the lead to the screwdriver is the preferred method. Learning every day for me.

 

Adjusting the Z is fairly easy. Loosen the set screw on the pulley, rotate the lead screw, tighten set screw.

The belt runs super smooth, but has not seen any electricity yet. I think my mbi style stepper cables are not compatible with these stepper. Moving truck comes tomorrow, ran out of build time.

 

Printe d my first cube tonight. Borked my first stepper driver tonight. First print had some belt tension issues. I think my ssr for my heart bed is defective also. Full time on with no input signal. The HBP heats up very quickly.

 

I can't wait for this. The first good http://www.mosaicmanufacturing.com/blog-1/2015/hardware-heavensolution for multi color printing is here

 

It turned out to be user error with my ssr, the output side is directional. + is input -is output side. Once I hooked it up properly it functioned fine.

The mount for my extruder is just a universal dual extruder mounting plate, with a90 degree bend in it. I plan on replacing that with a aluminum right angle. Pretty easy mount. I will post some photos when I can, the bot is currently behind a wall of moved boxes.

The short, all metal, stepped thermal barrier is the best in my opinion. You get actual retraction, and coupled with sailfish you get best print quality on8 bit. Driving one direct drive stepper around with two kysan's should be no trouble, my clone uses one .8A stepper to move my dual extruding carriage.p

 

First ugly no cooling fan PLA. was a sample of some pre lubricated stuff. Also, stepper motor was loose, every time it tried to change filament direction there was some deflection of the motor/filament drive. I have updated my to-do list

To-Do List

1. correct sag in HBP
2. reprint shorter lead screw base, allowing clearance of cross-member
3. model strain relief for gantry
4. remodel gantry plate to accept extruder bracket better
5. center rear leadscrew

 

My plan with the HBP is to put a angle aluminum extrusion under it.

 

It has been a long slow process getting the last little bits straightened, and nit picky fine tuning. I finally have a nice flat plane to print on. I got the 300mm aluminum plate from lulzbot and mounted my PCB under it. I think i will use some 1mm ginopads to allow some expansion differences in the different materials. I need to make a support brace, holding the pcb against the bottom of the plate, the same sag that was causing me grief with the glass has returned, under the aluminum the only problem is low thermal conductivity. Luckily I just made nice with an employee at instructables who might be able to get me some flo-jet time. order up a k shaped brace to support the pcb and clear the thermister.

next bug to squash, finding center offsets for slicer calibration. I need to run the centering script from repG, sailfish displays the information on the LCD. That information needs to go into S3D.

 

after a much too long hiatus on this project, I have begun to slowly creep froward with this project. I re-modeled the gantry plates, the front to hold the extruder bracket more securly, and the rear plate to include a anchor for a umbilical anti strain attachment point. I am going to mod enstop to anchor the other end. my umbilical will be supported by two pieces of 3mm filament or some CF rod I have in my kite bag.

the gantry back prints in two pieces.

 

Some fine work being done here. Post some more detailed pics of your prints. Always good to have for comparisons.

As soon as I get some good prints from it, I will put them up. I just got my HBP sag under control. My printer was sidelined for a few months with a cross country move. I just turned it on for the first time since april.

I see the main design goal of 3CB was to create a 3 screw version of Carl's C-Bot, but you also site tempo502 and Dan Newman's designs as inspiration.

It was their inspiration to use the mightyboard and sailfish as a firmware. My slicer just thinks my printer is a big plated Rep1. Any print on my rep1 sd card can be put into the 3C and press print.

The stacked belt meshes nicely with using a 20x40 X rail, but without having done any deflection calcs, I am having trouble believing that its extra sag rigidity is required vs a 20x20 section. Going to a 20x20 would reduce the X rail mass. Also the 20x40 increases the separation between the opposing carriage wheels, which reduces their effectiveness in countering carriage moments. We tend to stick all kinds of fans, leveling sensors, leds, cameras and other junk on the X carriage, so at the end of the day is it really tough to know where the center of mass will be.

The 20x40 really allows the belt to be hidden and run completely inside the rail. I had thoughts on acrylic side panels mounted on standoffs to allow the gantry bar cars to slide.



Flip side to this is I cannot find any discussions about the belt crossing scheme dnewman did. Dan obviously knows what he is doing and appears happy enough with the scheme, and from his flickr albums, has built a series of machines with this design. But these belts are in contact with each other, toothed side to smooth side. Are they a consumable like filament? Might create print artifacts or make noise?

I think the crossed belt idea was Jetguy's and he defends it vehemently, and most people just give up arguing with him. I have seen his 4'x4'x4' ulti replicator print with this setup. 1mm nozzle chewing from 10# spools of 3mm filament in ginormous vase mode, no artifacts. All three have reported no issues with belt wear. That top comes up on the google group from time to time with some regularity.



So you could argue I am focused on a non-existent problem, but it seems like reducing arm mass and reducing unwanted moment asymmetries can only help, and might allow use of 3 wheeled carriages.

I read an conversation between tempo and the creator of the bukito discussing this, I believe that it was in the context of a delta bot, but I think it would apply. I will have to search for it when I have a chance. They had decided that 3 wheels led to an imbalance in force and 4 was better, IIRC. I also use my clone as an example, a single crappy .8A stepper ( y axis ) moves the wight of 3 motors, two hot ends a dual carraige and all the related rods belts and such. 3C uses two 1.5A Keysan steppers, working together to move the gantry and a single extruder